A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up information/metadata as well as cover art from Cover Art Archive.

Media libraries

The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data:

Amarok

Amarok is a music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4.x supported lookups via MusicBrainz [1], and versions starting from 2.4 support it again [2].

Banshee

Banshee is an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD.

beets

beets is a flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend.

Clementine

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

foobar2000

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of its features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Support for MusicBrainz has been added with foo_musicbrainz and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.

MusicBee

MusicBee is a MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [3].

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

Affiliated taggers

Magic MP3 Tagger was designed to enable easy and effective renaming of audio files. This is done by

checking the available tag,

automatically interpreting the file and folder names,

selecting the most reliable data from the tags, file and folder names,

validating and completing the tags by cross-checking the songs with an internal music database.

Magic Mp3 Tagger uses MusicBrainz to find its data, has many different options, recursive processing of folders, and a clear and easy to use interface. Further information is available at http://www.magic-tagger.com/. Magic MP3 Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.

Yate Music Tagger

Yate Music Tagger is a Mac OS X based tagger for mp3, m4a, FLAC and AIFF files. Supports MusicBrainz, Discogs and integration with iTunes. Actions providing scripting can be run interactively or in a batch mode. Yate Music Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.

Other taggers

Flactag

Flactag is a linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the MusicBrainz service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme.

Kitsune

kitsune is a free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use chromaprint to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.

Mp3tag

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

CD rippers

The following programs will rip your CDs and use MusicBrainz to tag the new files:

morituri is a powerful command line ripper for *nix that aims at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.

Note: The author has gone more or less AWOL, so others have continued the project in the fork whipper (see below).

RipIt

RipIt is a command line ripper that can rip to a number of formats. It can be set to use MusicBrainz for looking up release information.

Note: The author has officially retired (from) the project.

Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu.

X Lossless Decoder

X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

whipper

whipper is a fork of morituri (see above), a powerful command line ripper for *nix aiming at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its sole source for release metadata.

Mobile Apps

nusic

nusic is an app to notify you about new releases of the artists of tagged songs on your phone. It makes periodic requests to MusicBrainz to check if new releases have been added.